There, close on our left, is the overhanging rock which we saw on our right when looking up to this place from the valley (Stereograph No. 12). Two or three stones piled one over the other, each extending a little further than the other, and but a step more would land the spectator into space, to the valley nearly a mile below. There are other such formations in petty, and plenty, but they are mere miniatures to this. […] I remember one in the Nan-co-weap Valley, in southeastern Arizona, […] but in the Arizona case the friable sandstone detritus buttresses the rock up to a point so near the overhanging rocks that the sense of danger is diminished. Here, a false step, and there is nothing but a mile of space below. […]
From: Charles Quincy Turner, Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope, Underwood & Underwood, New York, 1902, pp. 50-51.
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